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Re: "Has anyone built a Gemini Fediverse server?"
Could fetch the remote image and store locally, but I can see where that opens a new problem of serving and managing attachments that tootik doesn’t currently need to deal with.
On the other hand, profiles get cached by most servers and many like Mastodon/Pleroma/MissKey save the image to local cache for n days for their users, so the occasional remote image fetch probably is not such a hit in the grand Fediverse scheme.
Feb 18 · 5 weeks ago
@istvan I agree. I can fetch the image from a URL or implement image upload (though Titan or some other protocol) with some dimensions+size limit, then optimize+convert the image. The biggest work item is the upload thing.
For now I just manually edited the db to add the necessary fields to my user, then updated username via gemini interface to trigger a fetch among followers’ servers.
Seems to work fine.
Has anyone built a Gemini Fediverse server? — I just discovered Gemini today, and it is a fascinating approach to the Internet. One possibility that seems interesting is to build a Fediverse server with a Gemini front-end. It would have the following properties: Identity would be a Gemini certificate. The identity would be communicated in ActivePub as a hash/fingerprint of the public key. For example as @uyzwisfenxq3ydha@gemini.social Posts would be just Gemini input (10) requests with all the...
💬 Éamonn · 17 comments · 5 likes · 2023-12-31 · 3 months ago